burroughs

[barbara nagler <birena>]

     I tried to find the 2 pages in The Ticket that Exploded by William
Burroughs that I once got stuck in.  It was the first Burroughs work I
read and I couldn't get past those two pages.  not because they were
tedious, but because I didn't want to leave.  They were an exploding
ticket.  I just read them over and over.

      The book's gone from the library shelves, along with most of his
others.  and himself.  It's like missing teeth.  A tunnel to somewhere
with a warning wind blowing out of it.

     So I got The Cat Inside instead.  (one of those "later, more
conventional works" I suppose)  A beautiful ink slash drawing on the cover
like a signature, full of distilled, electric cat-- a key and a gateway
guardian. And one staring cat's eye peering through stripes of its own
gold-and-shadow fur.

      Irena